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Friday, 17 May 2013

Google launches Hangouts, a unified messaging service

Google unveiled the rumoured Hangouts communications platform at I/O keynote earlier today. Google Hangouts is a product of Google’s imagination to bring a real-time communication across platform, which is not limited and gives access to all the needed features.

“Today’s real-time communication products make conversations difficult. Some require everyone to use the same operating system. Others support video calls, but not photo-sharing. And still others enable mobile messaging but ignore the web entirely. Patchy solutions (including our own) preclude meaningful connections online, and we aim to fix this,” Google’s Vic Gundotra noted in a blog post.

So, Google Hangouts is here to fix all you communication problems. It will be integrating all of Google’s existing communication platforms like Google Talk, Gmail Chat, Google+ Messenger and more into one product.

According to Google, Hangsouts will be available as a standalone app for Android, iOS, and Chrome (for PC, Mac, Linux etc.). It will also be integrated in Gmail and Google+. There is no word on Hangouts release for other platforms; anyways we don’t care for them.

Here is a quick look at Google Hangouts features

Support for Photos and emoji
Conversation history: You can swipe back in time and relive all your favorite moments. (You can also turn off history, if you want.)
Notification sync across platforms: Once you see a notification on one device, Hangouts will clear it from your other Android devices and computers. You can also snooze notifications when you don’t want to be interrupted.
Support for video calls